Section 5: Power to hold inquiries
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5. Power to hold inquiries
(1) The Director-General may hold any inquiry or may direct an inquiry to
be held into any matter under his responsibility and management, or into the
conduct of any officer.
(2) Where the Director-General thinks it necessary or desirable so to do
for the purpose of this Act, he may, by Order, require any person to attend
as a witness and give evidence, produce any document in his possession or
power or otherwise furnish information, which relates to any matter relevant
to the inquiry.
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(3) Where any document is produced pursuant to subsection (2), the
Director-General may take copies of, or extracts from, it or require the
person producing it, or any connected person, to provide an explanation of
any such document.
(4) Where a person is unable to produce a document, he may be required
to state, to the best of his knowledge, where the document is.
(5) Any person who fails to comply with an Order under subsection (2) or
with subsection (3) or (4), shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction,
be liable to a fine not exceeding 25,000 rupees.
(6) Any person who, when heard as a witness in any such inquiry, gives
false evidence shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
[S. 5 amended by s. 27 (3) (c) of Act 33 of 2004 w.e.f. 1 July 2006.]